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• I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheist, Atheism

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• My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Believe, Struggle

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.14, Routledge

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• I’d rather just think of everything positively.

  Minzy

  Thinking

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• Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

  Shari Arison

  Impact, Circles, World

  "Activate Your Goodness" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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• It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.

  Tom Barrett

  Thinking, Practice, Mind

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• I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.

  Nora Ephron

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• Samadhi is the journey from individual to collective consciousness. The steps of Samadhi are the steps towards reaching the collective consciousness. In meditation, the more we radiate love, compassion, peace, harmony and tranquility, the more is our contribution towards the collective consciousness. The more we positively contribute towards the collective consciousness the more is our progress in Samadhi.

  Amit Ray

  Journey, Compassion, Meditation

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• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Teamwork, Kids

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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• Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Common Sense, Vices

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin

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• America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.

  Max Brooks

  War, America, Perception

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.52, Broadway Books

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• I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Pain, Our World, Joy

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• I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

  Jack Nicholson

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Views

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Karma, Feelings

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• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Real, Simple, Life Is

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.

  Peter Brook

  Fire, Oedipus, Giving

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• If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.

  Brian Tracy

  Morning, Believe, Successful

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• Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Moose

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• Savor more; fix less. Laugh more; cry less. Anticipate positively more; anticipate negatively less. Just practice that and watch what happens.

  Esther Hicks

  Practice, Laughing, Watches

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.254, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

  Jiang Zemin

  Politics, Study

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• Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time.

  Brian Tracy

  Dialogue

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• The rules of the game of life are quite simple. Always tell the truth. Never live in fear of anything or anyone. Be conscious of what you are thinking so you can always think positively. Do everything that you do for the love of doing it. If you devote yourself, your time and your energy to following these rules, have no doubt - you cannot lose!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Thinking, Simple, Games

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 03, 2015

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• This is an exciting opportunity to positively impact the lives of Canadian children with a disability by providing a more direct route to help them reach their full potential.

  Milos Raonic

  Children, Opportunity, Impact

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• We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.

  John Ralston Saul

  Lying, Two, Quality

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

  Chris Hughes

  Believe, People, Desire

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• When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you.
  When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive, Positivity, Power

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